Today I finished converting all my old programs that were on DAT. Then I dragged my heavy old Otari two-track from the basement and tried playing some old analog tapes on it, but of course it didn’t work. Most of my radio work is from the early 80s to early 90s when Scotch and Ampex were making that tape that went defective. So I’ve just ordered a toaster oven and will, with trepidation, attempt to […]
Read moreMonth: May 2008
Scenes from Childhood: In My Mother’s Kitchen
I’ve finished digitizing all ten childhood programs! Here’s one about the experience of home as a sanctuary from the cruelties endured at school.
Read moreScenes from Childhood: I Must Be from Another Planet
The first public radio series I ever produced was made possible by the first grant I ever got, from National Public Radio’s Satellite Program Development Fund in the mid-eighties. As I remember, the award totaled $10,000 and the project took three years. I love this series, but I am still mortally embarrassed by the name I came up with: Skip Through the Shadows: Scenes from Childhood. I’ve always sucked at making up titles. You see, […]
Read moreMy Life in Radio, and the Story of Rose Maddox
For years it’s been nagging at me that I need to digitize my old public radio programs, but I’ve never had a free moment even to figure out where to start. Well, how’s this for fortuitous: the day I found out I have all this unexpected free time, I stumbled upon a box of DATs (digital audio tapes) of my work: Steel Drivin’ Man (about the John Henry legend), Skip Through the Shadows (my childhood […]
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